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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
6 months ago in Virtual Servers 4 Future consideration

gRPC support between Code Engine applications

Considering gRPC is well-defined and used thouroughly in cloud deployments from small startups to global scaled services, it makes little sense that IBM Cloud Engine does not support this type of microservice communications. My company is using a ...
about 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Regarding the Classic Infrastructure configuration change screen on the Portal.

Regarding the price display on the Configuration Change screen for Classic Infrastructure on the portal. It is difficult to understand the price display before ordering when changing the configuration. Therefore, we would like the following specif...
about 2 years ago in Ordering 0 Future consideration

New profile High memory with low number of processors

Is there a VPC profile that has a large amount of RAM, but a low number of processors. e.g.:Processors -> 12Memory -> 512GB (minimum)I see the closest one in London is ux2d-16x448.... but that does not have enough memory for the Siemens/Tata...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

API for submitting new apps in IBM Cloud Partner Center

VMware/Bitnami has a pipeline that automatically builds, test, release and promote applications. This system owns all the publishing metadata. Currently the process for adding new applications is manual which no only breaks our automated pipeline ...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration

Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation?

1.**Please describe the problem you are experiencing in detail.** Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation? [a]Screen display of each action on IBM Cloud takes about 5 sec to 1 min. ex. ・Have to always wait to ...
almost 2 years ago in Compute 0 Future consideration

Allow generation of VSI performance stats from CLI

Currently the performance report can only be generated from the UI. Being able to do it from the cli would allow it to be scripted and automated.
almost 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Exporting the report once the case is resolved

Hello IBM, We do raise cases with IBM to resolved the issues which connects to APIC. But once the issue is resolved we are not able to export the entire ticket updates. We required this for our future reference if the same issue occur and we can g...
over 4 years ago in Support 3 Future consideration

Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
over 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Make DS8K storage available in IBM PowerVS to provide organizations with high-performance storage options for their workloads.

It is useful because DS8K storage offers high-performance and reliability features that can benefit organizations with demanding workloads. Organizations using IBM PowerVS would benefit from this availability as it provides them with a storage opt...
9 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration